The Manufacturing Institute announced today that three Sandvik Coromant employees will receive a Women in Manufacturing STEP award. STEP Ahead honors women who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in their careers, representing all levels in the manufacturing industry...Read More....

Manufacturing Day is a celebration of modern manufacturing meant to inspire the next generation of manufacturers. Although Manufacturing Day officially occurs on the first Friday in October—this year is October 2, 2015—any day can be a Manufacturing Day...Read More....

RCBI’s role in today’s global economy begins with a commitment to innovate, propelling West Virginia’s communities, industry and workers to meet market needs. RCBI plays an important role by collaborating with our partners, entrepreneurs, manufacturers, artists, academics and engineers by focusing on the needs of innovation and technology-based opportunities...Read More....

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Advanced Kiffer Systems, Inc. (AKS), a subsidiary of Kiffer Industries, is a Cleveland based company that has been at the forefront of high-quality machine tool production for over 90 years. Our headquarters and manufacturing facility is located adjacent to the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

AKS Cutting Systems manufacturers CNC plasma cutting machines and flame cutting systems, both unitized and gantry type. We have been actively involved in the sheet metal and plate metal cutting equipment for over 25 years. You may already be familiar with the AKS brand of cutting systems having seen our advertisements in prominent industry trade magazines. Perhaps you have visited our booth at a national or regional industry trade show.

In this video, Zane Michael of Yaskawa Motoman explains how one of their robot cells uses ultrasonics to cut, chamfer, trim, and carve all kinds of materials. Michael explains how the process is particularly useful in the automotive industry for cutting carpet, headliners, and other pieces of shaped plastic (including polycarbonate).

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc., which has been working secretly on a car, is pushing its team to begin production of an electric vehicle as early as 2020, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The timeframe -- automakers typically spend five to seven years developing a car -- underscores the project’s aggressive goals and could set the stage for a battle for customers with Tesla Motors Inc. and General Motors Co., both of which are targeting a 2017 release of an electric vehicle that can go more than 200 miles on a single charge and cost less than $40,000...Read More....

Leonardo da Vinci always seemed to be hungry for new ideas, but sometimes he may have been just hungry. Some 500 years ago, he designed a roasting jack that powered an automatic rotisserie. It used hot air rising from a fireplace to spin a horizontal vane placed in the chimney above it. The vane was attached to a vertical rod that turned the spit, and, presumably, his dinner.

The jack was one of the world’s first turbines and engineers have been using the same principle inside jet engines and power plants ever since. Since high heat can make turbines more efficient, the hot sections of modern turbines operate at temperatures above 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, much higher than Leonardo’s design and near the melting point of steel...Read More....

The majority of America’s advanced industries are manufacturers, said a study by the Brookings Institute. The study measured the impact of the advanced industries sector on American economic renewal, defining “advanced” as industries with research and development spending that exceeds ...

Some aspects of organizational culture are visible on the surface, like the tip of an iceberg, while others are implicit and submerged within the organization. Because these ingrained assumptions are tacit and below the surface, they are not easy to see or deal with, although they affect everything the organization does.

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